Friday, April 25, 2014

Inside Her Woods

Inside her woods:
the mind’s
midwinter;
goddess
of the rainbow; trees
(of course); the hush
of things; sleep;
the last red squirrel;
a wave,
a winged form;

fingers
rusted;
the very lifting edge
of evening;
a coin stuck in a slot
for many years; the sound
of water pouring; a matter of terror;

a gentle little thing;
craters and mirrors; a circle full of light;
its conclusion;
a bent-down bough
of nothing; children racing;
pollen; a new world; bubbling

breeding
pools;
woodnymph’s Joints
and Kracks; bright and blowy
enclosure of weather;
a flood
across
a plain;
a thread;
a bridge
built
out of the linked cells of thin air; a rose;
one foot; green; roots; opponent eyes;
a scrapwork of flashes
among billowing
clustered on its branches;
various Danks
of Dusk; the moon,
a waspish whiteish; more than one North
Star, more than one South
Star;

Christ; silence; dawn closed and containing
everything;
the rock’s heart
under darkness;
small-seeing
flies; the dead tongue;
the dandelion
like heaven concealed; a man;
prints
on the wall, etc.